Multilingual Asynchronous Communications Of Speech Messages Recorded In Digital Media Files

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided multilingual for asynchronous communications. Embodiments include recording a speech message in a digital media file; transmitting, from a sender multilingual communications application to a recipient multilingual communications application, the speech message in the digital media file; receiving, in the recipient multilingual communications application, the recorded speech message in the digital media file; converting, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the recorded speech message to text; identifying, by the recipient multilingual communications application, that the text of the recorded speech message is in a source language that is not a predetermined target language; translating, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the text in the source language to translated text in the target language; converting, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the translated text to synthesized speech in the target language; recording, by the recipient multilingual communications application, the synthesized speech in the target language in a digital media file; and playing the media file thereby rendering the synthesized speech.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The field of the invention is data processing, or, more specifically, methods, systems, and products for multilingual asynchronous communications.[0003]2. Description of Related Art[0004]Managers are increasingly isolated from one another and their employees. One reason for this isolation is that managers are often time constrained and their communication occurs with many different devices and often communications requires two or more managers or employees to be available at the same time. Furthermore, more and more of today's managers or employees work in different countries. This business landscape is complex considering that the vast majority of the world's population needs or prefers a language other than English to carry out business functions. As international trade and cultural exchange continues to grow, the need for multilingual support for communications among users will also continue to grow. There therefore ...

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This business landscape is complex considering that the vast majority of the world's population needs or prefers a language other than English to carry out business functions.

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